[Yr7-10it] GIMP photoshop imitations

[Fawcett - Le Rossignol, Jamie E]

HI Claire,
 
There is also a modification of GIMP called GIMPShop which looks like
Photoshop, but I haven't used it much.
http://www.gimpshop.com/
 
Cheers,
Jamie

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[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Bill Kerr
Sent: Saturday, 6 December 2008 7:40 PM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] GIMP photoshop imitations


hi Claire,

I've been using GIMP for years but have not made much headway in getting
other teachers to pick it up, especially the art teachers who regard
photoshop as their bread and butter - hence my request for feedback re
the GIMP photoshop emulators, if anyone has used them

We can still put it on a free CD which can be borrowed in the Resource
Centre

cheers


On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Claire Adams <claire.e.adams at gmail.com>
wrote:


Bill,

I think it's definitely worthwhile checking out GIMP.  It's free! Who
doesn't love that?  Schools unncessarily fork out heaps of money for
photoediting software when they could be using FOSS instead.
I've worked with GIMP with students 8-10 previously and they seemed to
cope with transfering their skills.
Give it a go yourself before you decide to implement it though.  A
problem I ran into was that other staff members were unaware of GIMP,
so I'd recommend some T&D to make sure that it actually gets used in
all lessons.
I know that when I set my machine to dual boot linux & windoze I end
up ignoring one OS, and that's exactly what the students did with
GIMP. Unless they were reminded of it they 'instinctively' used PShop.
 So I'd recommend getting rid of pShop when you install GIMP on the
school's system(s).
I didn't use an app to make GIMP into a pShop clone - just as we
expect people to transfer their skills from one Word Processor to
another i think we should expect them to transfer their skills from
one image editor to another.

Claire Adams


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> would it be worthwhile checking these out closely?
> anyone done this?
> this would be a free distro and the skill transfer from these to
photoshop
> might be quite close
> might provide more leverage for reluctant photoshop addicts to use
GIMP?
>
> http://www.gimphoto.com/
>
> GimPhoto + GimPad = free Photoshop alternative
>
> http://www.gimpshop.com/
> "GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image
Manipulation
> Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its
> primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using
GIMP."
>
> wikipedia says that GimPhoto is based on a more recent GIMP
> GimPhoto - a similar project, that is based on a more up-to-date
version of
> the GIMP
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop
>
> --
> Bill Kerr
> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
>

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